Refunds & Reservations

Residents who have registered for an event or reserved a room for rental will be notified about processing their refund or rescheduling their event.

Community Center memberships will be put on hold to ensure members receive the full length of their term agreement. This means your membership expiration will be extended the length of closure. For month-to-month Community Center memberships, you will not be billed until we reopen. If you have questions, please call 952-233-9500.

City Services Available Online

Many city services are available through the city website. These include:

The City of Shakopee is committed to the health of our community, and we understand the need to stay active and spend time outdoors.

While some cities have closed their parks and playgrounds, the city prefers to allow residents to use these facilities responsibly. To keep them open, accessible and safe, we strongly urge everyone to use our parks, trails and park amenities responsibly.

Park Facilities Notes

Park shelters are unavailable for rent through June

SandVenture Aquatic Park will not open for the summer 2020 season

City outdoor athletic fields will available for practices beginning June 1, weather permitting. No games or tournaments are allowed at this time.

Lions Park Splash Pad will not open Memorial Day. The city is monitoring public health guidelines to determine whether it can safely open the splash pad at a future date.

Stay Safe MN

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed Executive Order 20-56 setting guidelines for safely reopening economic and social settings with precautions related to COVID-19.

Beginning May 18, Minnesotans are welcome to gather with friends and family in groups of 10 or less with safe social distancing practices in place. Non-critical businesses, like retail stores and main street businesses, can reopen if they have a social distancing plan and operate at 50 percent capacity.

On June 1, additional businesses, including restaurants, bars and salons, may reopen with certain guidelines. The city will allow businesses within commercial and industrial zoning districts to provide temporary customer service areas to accommodate safety guidelines.

On March 16, Mayor Bill Mars signed a declaration of local emergency related to the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. The declaration of an emergency invokes the city’s emergency disaster plan and allows cities to provide emergency assistance without complying with time-consuming procedures and formalities that are generally required before. The City Council ratified the declaration March 17.

Economic Injury Disaster Loans

TheU.S. Small Business Administration is offeringlow-interestfederal disaster loans for working capital to Minnesota small businesses suffering substantial economic injury as a result of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). Businesses can apply for loans to pay fixed debts, payroll, accounts payable and other bills that can’t be paid because of the disaster’s impact. If you have questions.

Eligibility is based on the financial impact of COVID-19. The interest rate is:

3.75 percent for small businesses

2.75 percent for private non-profit organizations

SBA offers loans with long-term repayments in order to keep payments affordable, up to a maximum of 30 years and are available to entities without the financial ability to offset the adverse impact without hardship.

Small Business Emergency Loan Program

The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development has established a loan program to assist small businesses directly and adversely affected and whose industry is named in Executive Orders 20-04 and 20-08 following the COVID-19 pandemic. The Small Business Emergency Loan Program uses DEED’s lender network to make loans of between $2,500 and $35,000 for qualifying small businesses. Learn more about the emergency loan program on DEED's website.

Payment Protection Program

The Paycheck Protection Program provides forgivable loans up to $10 million to small businesses left financially distressed by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The loans, which are administered at the local level by a national network of banks and credit unions, provide funds to pay up to eight weeks of payroll costs including benefits. Funds can also be used to pay interest on mortgages, rent and utilities.

The Department of Labor has information about the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, which requires certain employers to provide employees with paid sick or family leave for specified reasons related to COVID-19.